THE BTKDS OF XEW JERSEY. 193 



(hhld. Yellow very much restricted. 



e. Restricted to tips of tail feathers and flanks. 



Waxwings, p. 2.55 

 ce. Restricted to top of head and rump, rest gray. 



Pine (iROSUEAic (female), p. 220 

 cee. Restricted to throat ; breast and lores black. 



Horned Lakks, p. 201 



Family TYRANNID^. 



The Flycatchers. 



The Tyrant Flycatcliers are small or medium sized, usually plain 

 colored birds with rather long wings and small feet. They have the 

 habit of perching on some convenient limb, often at the top of a dead 

 tree, from which they sail out after passing insects, returning again 

 to the same perch. Their bill? are very broad and flat, well armed 

 with bristles at the base. 



Their vocal apparatus is 3nucli less highly organized than in any of 

 the following families, which are separated collectively as the Song 

 Birds. 



a. Wing over 4. 



i. Under parts white or tinged with gray, tail white tipped. 



Kingbird, p. 11)5 

 hb. Under parts yellowish-white, sides and band across the breast dusky. 



Olive-sided Flycatcher, p. 197 

 bhh. Throat gray, belly yellow. Great-crested Flycatcher, p. 19G 



bihh. Tail, 7-10 long, deeply forked. 



P^'ork-tailed and Scissor-tailed Flycatchers, p. 104 

 aa. Wing under 3.5. 



6. Wing over 3. 



c. Lower mandible dark. Phoebe, p. 196 



cc. Lower mandible light. Wood Pewee, p. 198 



66. Wing under 3. 



c. Lower parts sulphur yellow. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, p. 198 

 cc. Lower parts white, sometimes tinged on breast with pale yellow. 

 d. Back olive, lower mandible pale. Acadian Flycatcher, p. 199 

 dd. Back decidedly brownish, lower mandible dusky. 



e. Wing. 2.00 or over. Alder B^lycatcher, p. 199 



ee. Wing under 2.t;(». Least Flycatcher, p. 200 



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